Re: [foxboro] Remote display manager on a moder X server?
- From: "Bruley, Peter" <pbruley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Darryl Bond <dbond@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 12:22:17 -0400
You can build your own custom palette for the remote (exceed) blink_task
using the "palette editor"
Then save it with a new name say "sys_pal.remoteblink"
Then make a change in your remote DM script to use the new palette you
created (thus you do not need to change any of the FOXBORO - SUN defaults)
by passing in the palette arg to blink_task. For example:
/usr/fox/wp/bin/blink_task -f -b -r -hb 5 -sig
/usr/fox/wp/data/sys_pal.remoteblink &
Peter
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From: Darryl Bond
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 4:32 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] Remote display manager on a moder X server?
It's a shame that Foxboro are never going to fix this. It is getting
harder to
support 8 bit displays with the current generation of software and
video cards.
(Try running a dual screen Matrox card with 8 bit depth on both
screens). My
organisation will be staying with display managers for the
forseeable future so
I need to do something.
The program that is causing all the grief seems to be blink task.
I'm sure that
there are enough skills on this list to reverse engineer the
operation of the
blink task to work properly with 16/24bit displays, maybe with a
little help
from our friends at Foxboro.
Regards
Darryl Bond
stan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 09:04:02AM -0400, Bruley, Peter wrote:
>
>>
>>Type "bllink_task -help" to see more switches that blink_task will
accept.
>> ----------
>> From: stan
>> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 7:51 AM
>> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [foxboro] Remote display manager on a moder X
server?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:58:04PM -0400, Bruley, Peter
wrote:
>> >
>> > Stan:
>> >
>> > I have a LINUX box running Xfree86 v4.2.0 (minor v11 - Jan
>>18/2002)
>> >
>> > I run my X server at 24 colors with backing-store &
save-unders
>>enabled.
>> >
>> OK, heres where I am on this. By usinng the -f option to
blink_task,
>>I'm
>> able to partialy get this to work on a display with 24
colors.
>>
>> blink_task pops up a smaill error window complaining about
not being
>>able
>> to int colrs. But display manager does come up. Now I have
not yet
>>done
>> anything to add an colors to the servers color database. Did
you
>>have to
>> add any Foxboro, or Sun specifc colors to rgb.text?
>>
>> NO
>>
>> I also have not yet moved the fints, but Im confortable with
that as
>>I have
>> doen it in the past.
>>
>> So I'm not getting any "highlighting" (like the password
entry filed
>>on the
>> change enviornment scree.
>>
>> I don't get the highlighting either
>
>
> OK.
>
>
>> Also on some of my displays, the color status are
>> incorrect. I'm not certain the node I;m testing on has
naything that
>> _should_ be blinking, but I'm certainly not seeing anything
blink.
>>
>> I get all the proper status colors and blinking. Perhaps you
have
>>another problem. Check your /usr/fox/wp/data/sys_pal.xxx files
>>
>> I don't remember the extensions but there should be 4 of
them.
>> 2 are used (1 for the blink task and 1 for the DM colors)
>> 2 are backups (1 for the new-std DM colors and 1 for the
old-std DM
>>colors)
>> Note/ They all look to be the same size but they have
different
>>check-sums.
>>
>> If you are running Display Manager and the displays are over
apx.
>>5yrs old then you probably need to be using the "old-std DM color
scheme"
>>you will need to copy the correct file over.
>
>
> Interesting, the /op/ia/.profile I started from (6.1.2) has the
following
> snipet of code:
>
> if [ "$VENDOR" = "Sun" ]
> then
> #
> # For the Sun X Server, we start from /usr/fox. Because
> # there is no fontdef.dat file in /usr/fox, SL-GMS
applications
> # will user the fontdef.dat file in /usr/fox/wp/data. This
file
> # contains font selections optimized for Sun X Servers.
> #
> cd /usr/fox
> else
> #
> # For non-Sun X Server, we start from /opt/ia, where
> # the "remote" fontdef.dat file is located. This file
> # contains font selections optimized for non-Sun X Servers..
> #
> cd /opt/ia
> fi
>
> Whats particularly interesting is there are no such files in
/opt/ia
>
> But I digress, this is font related and curently we are discussing
colors.
>
> The files uou spek of, are they only used on remote dislay
manager? Because
> if not, would not the displays on the Sun's also have the wrong
colors?
>
>
>
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